Sisters: talk to each other, be connected and informed, form women's circles, share your stories, work together, and take risks. Together we are invincible.

If I write something, I fear it will happen, and if I love too much, I fear I will lose that person; nevertheless, I cannot stop writing or loving.

I was a lousy journalist. I could never be objective. Sometimes I invented the whole story.

Giving women education, work, the ability to control their own income, inherit and own property, benefits the society. If a woman is empowered, her children and her family will be better off. If families prosper, the village prospers, and eventually so does the whole country.

I carry around a little stool to stand on when people want a picture with their cellular phones.

I can promise you that women working together - linked, informed and educated - can bring peace and prosperity to this forsaken planet.

Silence before being born, silence after death: life is nothing but noise between two unfathomable silences.